The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-11-17
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| he CENSUS VI IIHSldllU anu w oiSo
records 1908, 900 women as wage
| earners.
A violin made for Louis XIV, by
Amati has just been sold for $500 at
Buda Pesth.
Sixty-one women in all have made
the ascent of Mont Blanc. OF these
only three were Americans.
Phoebe Hicks, of Petersburg, Va,
has married a widower with thirty-one
children. She is his eighth wife.
Mrs. Hall, of Plattsburg, Ny, was
shot in the arm while standing by a
! grave by which her husband was con-
Quoting burial service.
A brass key, used as sinker by a
Yarmouth, n. s., citizen, was carried
away by a fish, and several days later
was found in a lobster pot one mile
away.
The Hon. John w. Allen is dead at
Cleveland, aged Sc. His father, at the
age of IA, was member of the COM
pany of volunteers that captured Bur-
goyne.
A general smile was caused at a
/ SldIlOi liiC OOiiSI
by an innocent countryman who asked
for accommodations lin one of them
bedroom cars.
The quantity of tea sold to foreign
firms at Yokohama from the begin
ming of the season up to the 9th of
September was 16,S10,000 pounds, val
ued at S., 1896
In FaunettsbUrg, Franklin County,
Pa, lives tiiteen-ycar-old boy who IS
6 feet and inch in height and well
proportional. His name is James
Newton Alexander.
Sara Bernhardt has written a new
| play, but is waiting until the adver-
Using field is clear before she unseals
her lips and suffers the reporters to in
terview Sarah the dramatist.
Miss Oloff Krarer of Ottawa, ILL.,,
native Esquimau from the eastern
coast of Greenland. has been lectur-
ing in Chicago. She is 80 years old,
and is only forty inches high.
Ludovic Halevy, the French author,
sold more than 100000 copies of
Able Constantine" blanche Cour-
onne," which he describes as being
"virtuous to a revolving degree"
A Maine widower gave man $40
to pay for lights and fuel while the
widower was counting the mans
daughter. She refused to marry him,
aud he is trying to recover the SO.
A lady interfered with an i'm
patient driver in Lynn and started a
stubborn, balky horse attached to a
heavily loaded coal wagon by giving
the animal four apples and then simp-
| " saying, Come along"
Sarah Parkes, of West Bromwick,
| England, has been committed for trial
on the charge of numbering her hus-
band by throwing paraffin over some
furniture and on the bed in which he
lay and setting it on fire.
"Force is no Remedy" in English
words, headed an article on the Irish
question in the Citizens Gazette, of
Hamburg. The police caused the
suppression of the paper. They said
the article indirectly melted the Social
lists to violence.
1t is now asserted that hay fever is
not produced by pollen, but by minute
organisms floating in the atmosphere
| On the hypothesis that these creatures
have intelligence it is possible 20
understand how the highly intellect
ual are selected as hay-fever victims.
Stead, of the Pail Mall Gazette, said
of the hubbub raised over his allusion
to the Prince of Wales as 1.-the fat
little bald-headed man in red clothes, "
that he, Stead, believed the English
| people wouldn't have been half SC
much Mortified had he attacked the
Trinity.
Queen Victoria, it is said, has been
engaged since her arrival at Balmoral
in revising the proofs of a popular"
| biography of the Prince COnsort,
written by Rev. William Tulloch, son
of the late Principal Tulloch. The
work will contain several anecdotes
contributed by her Majesty.
A man died at Fairyiew, Fla, re-
Gently at the age of twenty-seven, who
for fourteen years, according to his
dying statement, had never remained
a whole month in one place On his
death-bed he stated that he had killed
his cousin in quarrel, when a boy,
and had since been wanderer.
-Four couple are living in Killing
worth, Conn, who were married in
1887, and three other couples are liv-
| ing in other places who were married
in Killingworth in the same year.
| Twelve of the fourteen individuals are
natives of the town. The ceremony
in each instance was performed by
Rev. Z. G.. Swift.
The Bangor Commercial SAYS the
season just passed has been a great
one for the corn factories, and many
additional communities in Maine are
now agitating the matter of establish
ing these establishments. The industry
is rapidly becoming an important
branch of Maine agriculture and new
factories are continually going up.
The Atlanta (Ga.,) Constitution,
says: 1--WE have too many new fam
gled health notions. The men who are
a law unto themselves in their habits
generally live to attend the funeral
of the cranks who attempt to advance
| them. Nature guides nine men out of
ten in the right direction. If the
tenth misses it he may deserve to
miss it."
a 225-ounce nugget has been I'M
earthed by Cinnamon at Hargraves,
| Australia. The news of the find leaked
out through the transmission of it TO
the mint by the Chinese agents. The
celebrated Cair nugget of 100 weight
was found at Hargraves in the year
1852, and recently few miles away,
at the Maitland bar, a 460-ounce mug
| get was found.
Two Brazen Roman helmets have
been dug up by laborers digging a
trench for a water course at Schann,
in Leichtenstein, by the old Roman
road to Coire. One had engraved on
the brass the name ''Publius Cavidius
Felix of the century of Caius Petron-
Jus; the other, ''Nunerinus Paponius"